Detroit files for bankruptcy

WMATA union protests privatization proposal

DDOT’s proposal to privatize the streetcar and two dozen bus routes is running into opposition from Metro’s largest union. Local 689 says that the move could cost 200 drivers their jobs. (Post) Twitter

Ike Memorial rolls on

Frank Gehry’s controversial design for the Eisenhower Memorial has won concept approval from the US Commission on Fine Arts. The National Capital Planning Commission will also have to weigh in. (DCist) Twitter

When people lived smaller

One reason people now live in larger spaces than in the past: restrictive zoning, which in many cities, outlawed things like rooming houses, but mostly only where poorer and/or minority people lived. (Slate) Twitter

Sam Sherwood moved to DC in 2007, and has lived on the same block of T Street NW (albeit in two different apartments) ever since. He is a commercial real estate appraiser with Integra Realty Resources, and spends his evenings playing guitar for Mittenfields.